Have the Mac app remind you to drink water, stand up or rest your eyes, or add reminders of your own.
Each reminder arrives as a macOS notification with Done and Snooze 10 min buttons.
- Open Settings › This Mac › Break reminders.
- Turn on any of the three under Breaks. They all start off.
- Choose how often it repeats. Use Hours to limit it to certain times or to weekdays only, and Test to see the notification.
- To add your own, type a title under New reminder, choose how often, and click Add. Delete removes a reminder you added.
- To stop everything for a while, choose Pause 1 Hour. Resume starts them again.
Ask an agent instead: in a chat that runs on this Mac, say something like "remind me to drink water every 2 hours from 9 to 6". Agents can list, add, change, delete and pause the same reminders you see in Settings. One an agent adds is marked "Added by an agent".
Where: Mac app › Settings › This Mac › Break reminders.
Good to know:
- Settings offers intervals from 20 minutes to 4 hours. An agent can set anything from 5 minutes to 24 hours.
- You can have up to 20 reminders of your own.
- A reminder that comes due after you have been away from the Mac for 5 minutes is not sent. The time away counts as the break, and the interval starts again.
- The schedule survives a restart, but reminders stop while AgentSky is quit.
- If notifications are off for AgentSky, the page says so and offers to turn them on.
Related: Get notified when an agent finishes, Mac app permissions.